2ND PUC ENGLISH WORKBOOK ANSWERS STREAMS ARTICLES AND PREPOSITIONS

 

2ND PUC ENGLISH WORKBOOK ANSWERS STREAMS ARTICLES AND PREPOSITIONS

 

UNIT – 1: LANGUAGE USE

PART – 1

ARTICLES AND PREPOSITIONS

 

I. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate articles/prepositions wherever necessary.

 

1) This book of science fiction is about an alien who is naughty. The book is also very informative. I suggested the book to a friend.

 

2) The teacher gave us an assignment on an interesting topic. She told us to submit the assignment on Monday.

 

3) The people were dissatisfied with the leaders’ performance. So they decided to boycott the elections as a mark of protest. The leaders appealed to them to reconsider their decision.

 

4) The production of steel has gone up by ten percent in the last one year. This may lead to an increase of about twenty percent in construction costs in the country.

 

5) In the interview, the candidate was asked some interesting questions initially of his personal interests. A few more questions were asked on the same lines so that there would be no tension for the candidate.

 

6) Little Radha was in the garden filling in a hole when her neighbour peered through the fence, interested in what the cheeky-faced youngster was doing.

He politely asked, “What are you up to there, Radha?

“My goldfish died,” replied Radha tearfully without looking up, “And I’ve just buried him.”

The neighbor was concerned, ‘That’s an awfully big hole for a goldfish, isn’t it?” Radha patted down the last heap of earth and then replied, “That’s because he is inside your cat.”